Smoke consumer



Patented Aug. 18, 1931 UNITED STATES JOHN rYKosz, or cHIcAGqLLINoIs SMOKE CONSUMER Application mea March 25, 1929. serial 110.349,624.

rIhis invention relates to improvements in smoke consumers and has for its primary object the provision of improved means for promoting perfect combustion and consumption of fuel and thereby preventing the escape of smoke.

Another object of the invention is the provision of improved means readily attached to an ordinary heating stove and adapted and arranged to promote complete combustion therein and thereby prevent the discharge of smoke therefrom.

Another object of the invention is the provision of improved means insertable in the exhaust of an internal combustion engine adapted and arranged to promote complete combustion and therefore prevent escape of` smoke therefrom.

Other objects Will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the combinations and .arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention Will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and in Which- Fig. 1 is a partial vertical longitudinal section of a heating stove equipped With smoke consuming means embodying the invention;

Fig. 2, a fragmentary view of a foraminated consuming barrier employed therein;

Fig. 3, a fragmentary view similar to Fig. 1 but showing a modified form of construc- Fig. 4, a section taken substantially on line 4-4 of Fig. 3; and

Fig. 5, a View showing still another modlfied form of application of the invention.

The form of construction illustrated 1n Figs. 1 and 2 comprises an ordinary heating stove having a combustion chamber 10 and a grate for maintaining a ire bed 11 therem, said combustion chamber and grate being of any usual or desired form of construction.

A usual draft flue 12 equipped With a usual damper 13 leads from the upper portion. of the combustion chamber 10 for connection with a chimney or the like in the usual Way. Arranged in the upper portion of thecombustion chamber 10 is a foraminated barrier;

14 in the form of `a metal plate, preferably .offcast viromand having a plurality of relativelysmall draft vopenings 14 therein.

Theforaminated barrier 14 is positioned immediately above the fire bed 11, where it lwill be'sllbjected to the most intense heat from the combustion taking lplace in the `combustion chamber 10 and will be thereby heated to a red or White heat. As vWill b e noted, 'the plate l14 constitutes a foraminated barrier through Which all the products of combustion from the fire bed 11 must pass, so that,`When the same becomes duly heated by said products of combustion, it in turn constitutes a means for promoting combustion in the escaping gases, due to its intense heat. In this Way, complete combustion is effected in the escaping gases, and the escape of smoke with the products of combustion being discharged is prevented.

In the modied form of constructionillustrated in Fig. 8, the foraminated plate or barrier 14 is dispensed With, and a gooseneck pipe 15 is arranged in the upper portion of the combustion chamber 10, as shown,

having one end connected With the draft flue 12 and the other end opening into the upper portion of the combustion chamber.

By this arrangement, all products of combustion will be compelled to pass through the gooseneck pipe 15, which is arranged to be intenselyheated by the heat in the combustion chamber and which Will, therefore, promote and compel complete combustion in the escaping gases. In this Way, as before," the escape of smoke or soot With the products of combustion discharged through the flue 12 Will be prevented.

In the form of construction illustrated in Fig. 5, a conical enlargement 16 is arranged and provided, as shown, in the exhaust pipe 17 of an internal combustion engine. A foraminated barrier 18 in the form of a perforated metal plate is inserted, as shown, transversely in the enlargement 16, so that the exhaust gases are compelled to pass through said barrier. As soon as the barrier becomes sufliciently heated by its contact With the escaping exhaust gases, it Will serve as a means for inducing and promoting complete combustion in the escaping gases and thereby prevent escape of smoke or soot With the exhaust gases.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying this invention into effect, this is capable of modification and variation Without departing from the spirit of the invention. I therefore do not Wish to be limited to the precise details disclosed but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as fall Within the scope of theappended claim.

I claim: -Y

TheV combination of-a combustion chamber; a draft flue leading from the upper portion thereof; anda substantially U-shaped pipe arranged in the upper portion of said combustion chamber With its limbs substanhorizontal plane and having one tiallyin a n end connected With said draft flue, the other end opening into the upper portion of said combustion chamber.

lIn witness that'I claim the foregoing as my invention7 I affix my signature this 22nd day of March', 1929. Y Y

'JOHN PYKOSZ. 

